One, chick rearing technology:
From the shell to 28 days of age pigeons collectively referred to as chicks (some areas from birth to 10 days of age called the first chicks, 10-20 days of age, called the chicks). 2 hours after the chicks come out of the shell, the parent pigeon will start to use its beak to blow to the chicks, lactation, and then after 2 hours the parent pigeon began to feed the pigeon milk, this time the chicks are small and weak, easy to die, we must strengthen the management. First of all, observe carefully and pay attention to avoid being injured by the breeder or frozen to death. If the chicks still can't eat pigeon's milk in 5-6 hours, we should find out the reason in time (if necessary, feed the chicks with artificial pigeon's milk). When you find that the parent pigeon does not breastfeed, you can find the same period of breeding pigeons to foster, and you can avoid part of the parent pigeon to feed a single pigeon, to improve the production capacity. 3 ~ 4 days of age, the eyes of the baby pigeons slowly open, the body is gradually strong, the body's feathers began to grow, the amount of food is gradually increased, the digestive power to enhance. At this time, the parent pigeon has to feed the chicks frequently, sometimes up to a dozen times a day, so the feed supplied to the parent pigeon should be sufficient and nutritious to meet the needs. At this time, the chick's fecal emissions increase, easy to contaminate the nest, should be replaced every day in a timely manner to avoid the occurrence of disease, padding and grass.
Chick 10 days of age, the new feathers grow a lot, can walk around by themselves. Parent pigeons to chick insulation time is shortened, parent pigeons to feed the food from the pigeon milk into a half-pellet feed, a small number of chicks failed to fully adapt to, often indigestion and crop inflammation. In this case, we should feed some yeast tablets or stomachic medicine in time to help digestion. When the pigeon is 15 days old, the feathers of the whole body are basically long, and it can move freely, so it can be grabbed out of the nest, and a piece of cloth of 20cm×20cm is laid inside the cage, so that it can adapt to it slowly without twisting its feet. At this time, the parent pigeons are fed granular feed, the same as the feed they eat, and most of the parent pigeons start laying eggs again and are not interested in feeding the chicks, so they should be fed artificially during this period. After 20 days of age, the chicks are full of feathers and can move around in the cage, but they can't peck for food by themselves, they still rely on the parent pigeon, but they can take the initiative to beg for food from the parent pigeon, and then the parent pigeon will force it to pick food independently. At this time, the management should be strengthened to increase the supply of high protein feed to meet the needs of pigeon chicks. When the chicks grow to 25-28 days of age, they can weigh 500-750 grams and can be sold (the chicks at this time are called suckling pigeons).
Two, young pigeons feeding technology:
From 28 days of age from the nest until the transfer of the group, the conditions of the best place to do the "three no change": the original place to feed, the original feeders to feed, the original feed, which can promote the normal growth and development of young pigeons. 2 months of age young pigeons from the parent pigeons to independent life, this stage is difficult to feed, so it is necessary to promote normal growth and development of young pigeons. This stage is difficult to feed, so must
Must strengthen feeding management, pay attention to heat preservation, ventilation, strengthen the supply of health care sand and feed nutrients, to increase the machine disease resistance, so that its normal growth and development. At this time to do "three look three check": "three look" is to look at the dynamic, look at the appetite, look at the feces: "three check" is: check whether to eat the feed, check whether overcrowding, check whether to be bitten by the injury. The "three checks" are: whether they have eaten the feed, whether they are overcrowded and whether they have been bitten and injured. Can not eat the feed can be fed alone, bitten injured timely care, the militant feed alone, crowded can be expanded to feed. 2 months of age when the chicks began to change feathers, the feed protein feed should be increased appropriately to promote the renewal of the feathers. Add 5% flaxseed into the feed, add Chinese medicine such as Andrographis paniculata or Gentian grass into the health care sand, and add a small amount of antibiotics into the drinking water to prevent respiratory disease and paratyphoid fever. During this period, special attention should be paid to the hygiene of the cage, food and drink utensils, and should be scrubbed and disinfected on time. 3 ~ 4 months of age, the secondary sexual characteristics began to appear, the ability to become more and more active, this time it should be selected for the best and the worst, the males and females are separated from each other, or forced to the cage pairing, and the pigeons de-worming, to ensure the normal development of growth and development.
Third, breeding pigeon rearing technology:
Young pigeons gradually start to pair up at the age of 5 months, and at the age of 6 months, they are already sexually mature, and most of the main wing feathers of the pigeons are replaced to the last one, which is basically transferred to the breeding pigeon period.
(1)Prepare the pigeons before laying eggs: 8-10 days after pairing, the pigeons will start laying eggs. At this time, the condition should be on the cage rearing (or transferred to the egg nest of the pigeon house rearing), ready to lay eggs in the nest, inside the laying 1 layer of linen sheet, so as not to make the eggs broken. To check the cage has no loopholes, in order to prevent cats, dogs, snakes, rats interference or by the wind, leakage of rain invasion, resulting in undue losses.
(2) do a good job of egg-laying to the management of the chick: ① egg-laying check in a timely manner after the deformed eggs and broken eggs, found in a timely manner out of the first laying pigeons should be frequently observed whether the egg nest is fixed, whether the 2 are concentrated in the bottom of the center of the egg nest. For the new mates, we should observe whether they are harmonious or not, whether they often jump around and peck each other, resulting in stepping on the broken eggs. For the big size pigeons, we have to take care of them carefully to prevent them from crushing the eggs, and we have to prevent the pigeons from pecking at the eggs due to insufficient nutrition or malnutrition. (3) Eggs should be photographed on time, bad eggs should be dealt with in time, and unfertilized eggs, dead eggs and dead embryo eggs should be taken out in time to prevent the eggs from becoming smelly, which will affect the normal development of the eggs and the health of laying pigeons. Unfertilized eggs and dead embryos should be found to find out the reasons and improve the management system.
(3)Combine the eggs of the same time into a double hatching: the nest to produce 1 egg or 2 times to illuminate the egg left 1, should be combined with the same time eggs into a double hatching, in order to improve the productivity.
(4) The egg nest should be kept warm and clean, prepare double egg nests, and pay attention to heat preservation after the chicks are born. Often change the linen (hay), often wash the feces in the egg nest to maintain cleanliness and hygiene. At the age of 12 days, the chicks should be put into a nest of eggs, because the breeder pigeons began to lay the second clutch of eggs, in 15 days or so, the breeder pigeons serve as the dual task of lactation and incubation, this stage of the more careful feeding management, increase the nutrition of the feed, increase the number of feeds, in order to ensure that the breeder pigeons to complete the dual task.
(5) Make a good registration record: make a good record of the production of pigeons at any time, to provide an important digital basis for future feeding management.
The requirements of pigeon cage are as follows:
1. Group-raising pigeon cage: it is matched with group-raising pigeon house. Inside the cabinet pigeon cage, also known as the nest room cabinet or group rearing nest box. Each compartment is 40 centimeters deep, 35 centimeters high and wide. There is a small door between every two adjacent compartments. Two compartments are combined together to form a unit, and each unit keeps a pair of breeding pigeons.
2. Inside and outside double-cage pigeon cage: It is matched with the cage type pigeon house. The inner cage (40cm high, 40cm deep, 60cm wide) is used for breeding pigeons to feed, lay eggs and nurse. A small door (20cm wide, 20cm high) is opened on the front side and there is a trough, water trough and health sand cup outside the cage. The mesh size of the bottom of the cage is 2×2 cm, and a nesting bowl is set up at 17 cm from the bottom of the cage on one side of the small door. The outer cage is an exercise yard (40cm high, 60cm deep, 60cm wide), which also has a small door 20cm high and 15cm wide, with a water pipe at the top and a number of holes at the bottom of the pipe to facilitate regular showers for the pigeons. The bottom of the bottom of the cage is 20 centimeters from the ground, inside and outside the cage are equipped with a drainage ditch, in order to wash pigeon droppings.
3. Single cage: It is suitable for young pigeons to be forced to pair up and isolate the injured, sick and weak pigeons. It can be made of bamboo, wood and metal mesh, the cage is 50 centimeters high, 50 centimeters deep and 60 centimeters wide.